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Hats and Cattle

Updated March 2, 2001 5:19 p.m. ET

A better headline for Al Hunt's ("All Hat and No Cattle ") would be "All Rant and No Facts." We could pick at random almost any paragraph to analyze but let's look Mr. Hunt's statement that "The overtaxed argument is bogus."

The assertion that "taxes are higher in most other industrialized nations in the world" actually makes the case that lower taxes are better. Does Mr. Hunt prefer, say, the economy of France? The higher U.S. growth rate and lower U.S. unemployment rate compared to...